Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,021 5,667 7,170
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.81% 23.11% 19.13%
As % of the General category 34.54% 35.92% 33.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,119 3,786 4,999
10th Percentile £358 £355 £363
25th Percentile £447 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £590
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -3.39% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 102 244
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £12.82
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.75 £15.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +43.75% +0.07%
75th Percentile £56.75 £65.81 £38.12
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.31 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.25 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +49.07% -10.00%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 23,220 15,777 21,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.44% 64.35% 57.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,184 10,166 13,782
10th Percentile £313 £281 £281
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £635 £644 £650
90th Percentile £749 £766 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,605 738 1,831
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.32 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.08 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.76% -10.87% +3.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.20
90th Percentile £81.77 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -6.02%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,830 £575 -4.17% 1,728
North of England +2 1,256 £492 +6.26% 611
North West +5 666 £465 +3.33% 333
South East -1 656 £500 -4.31% 841
Midlands 0 625 £500 +8.11% 337
Yorkshire 0 543 £525 +10.53% 217
West Midlands +1 445 £509 +1.85% 212
South West -2 370 £525 -1.18% 261
East of England +2 195 £513 -10.87% 171
East Midlands -1 175 £468 +7.77% 124
North East -18 48 £500 +13.96% 69
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 285 (3.55%) Confluence
2 201 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 76 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 59 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 46 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 44 (0.55%) Apache
7 26 (0.32%) SAS
8 25 (0.31%) CMS
9 20 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.19%) CICS
11 14 (0.17%) Appian
12 12 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 12 (0.15%) IIS
13 11 (0.14%) Camunda
14 10 (0.12%) Ethereum
14 10 (0.12%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.075%) HCL Notes
15 6 (0.075%) Hyperledger
15 6 (0.075%) Mendix
15 6 (0.075%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 440 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 173 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 156 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 144 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
5 105 (1.31%) MS Visio
6 49 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 34 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.062%) Trello
9 4 (0.050%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.050%) Sketch
10 3 (0.037%) Notion
11 2 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.025%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.025%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.025%) InVision
11 2 (0.025%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.012%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.012%) UXPin
12 1 (0.012%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 289 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 106 (1.32%) NetSuite
3 91 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
4 78 (0.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 78 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
5 67 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
6 41 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
6 41 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
7 39 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
8 37 (0.46%) Aladdin
9 36 (0.45%) SAP FI
10 35 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
11 31 (0.39%) SAP CO
12 29 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
13 27 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
14 25 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
15 21 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
15 21 (0.26%) SAP BRIM
16 19 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
16 19 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,277 (15.92%) Azure
2 917 (11.43%) AWS
3 559 (6.97%) Power Platform
4 393 (4.90%) GCP
5 281 (3.50%) SaaS
6 273 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
7 258 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
8 207 (2.58%) GitHub
9 195 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
10 156 (1.94%) Snowflake
11 151 (1.88%) Entra ID
12 130 (1.62%) Serverless
13 103 (1.28%) Amazon S3
13 103 (1.28%) Power Automate
14 94 (1.17%) OCI
15 93 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
16 84 (1.05%) OpenShift
17 81 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
18 80 (1.00%) dbt
19 79 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 143 (1.78%) Firewall
2 118 (1.47%) Network Security
3 68 (0.85%) DNS
4 66 (0.82%) VPN
5 56 (0.70%) TCP/IP
5 56 (0.70%) WAN
6 36 (0.45%) BGP
7 32 (0.40%) HTTP
7 32 (0.40%) LAN
8 29 (0.36%) DHCP
8 29 (0.36%) SSL
9 25 (0.31%) OSPF
10 24 (0.30%) MPLS
10 24 (0.30%) Multicast
11 21 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
11 21 (0.26%) SD-WAN
12 19 (0.24%) VSAN
13 17 (0.21%) VLAN
14 16 (0.20%) DMZ
14 16 (0.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 478 (5.96%) Power BI
2 225 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 215 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
4 156 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
5 144 (1.80%) Metadata
6 136 (1.70%) Relational Database
7 124 (1.55%) Tableau
8 119 (1.48%) Data Lake
9 85 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 71 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
11 66 (0.82%) Big Data
12 62 (0.77%) Oracle Database
13 55 (0.69%) BigQuery
14 47 (0.59%) MongoDB
15 44 (0.55%) Power Query
15 44 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 41 (0.51%) Delta Lake
16 41 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
17 39 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
18 33 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 599 (7.47%) JIRA
2 195 (2.43%) Git
3 145 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 90 (1.12%) GitLab
5 49 (0.61%) JUnit
6 46 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 36 (0.45%) Selenium
8 28 (0.35%) Postman
9 27 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 26 (0.32%) MLflow
11 25 (0.31%) Visual Studio
12 21 (0.26%) REST Assured
12 21 (0.26%) SonarQube
13 17 (0.21%) Maven
13 17 (0.21%) Zephyr
14 16 (0.20%) ERwin
15 14 (0.17%) Hudson
15 14 (0.17%) TeamCity
16 13 (0.16%) Bitbucket
17 11 (0.14%) Mockito
General
1 2,326 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 1,506 (18.78%) Banking
3 1,044 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 443 (5.52%) Public Sector
5 340 (4.24%) Legal
6 322 (4.01%) Financial Institution
7 312 (3.89%) Investment Banking
8 295 (3.68%) Front Office
9 266 (3.32%) Retail
10 252 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
11 196 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
12 188 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
13 148 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 135 (1.68%) Local Government
15 132 (1.65%) Manufacturing
16 130 (1.62%) Law
17 124 (1.55%) Marketing
18 123 (1.53%) General Ledger
19 116 (1.45%) Billing
19 116 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,177 (14.67%) Analyst
2 912 (11.37%) Senior
3 845 (10.53%) Lead
4 821 (10.24%) Developer
5 746 (9.30%) Architect
6 628 (7.83%) Project Manager
7 604 (7.53%) Business Analyst
8 509 (6.35%) Consultant
9 313 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
10 277 (3.45%) Data Engineer
11 208 (2.59%) Senior Manager
12 191 (2.38%) Financial Analyst
13 169 (2.11%) Finance Manager
14 167 (2.08%) Data Analyst
15 164 (2.04%) Accountant
16 163 (2.03%) Senior Developer
17 162 (2.02%) Java Developer
18 157 (1.96%) Software Engineer
19 154 (1.92%) Programme Manager
20 144 (1.80%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (3.02%) .NET
1 242 (3.02%) REST
2 232 (2.89%) React
3 225 (2.81%) Kafka
4 180 (2.24%) Oracle Fusion
5 171 (2.13%) Middleware
6 143 (1.78%) Spring
7 140 (1.75%) Spring Boot
8 121 (1.51%) RESTful
9 103 (1.28%) Redux
10 97 (1.21%) PySpark
11 95 (1.18%) Node.js
12 88 (1.10%) AngularJS
13 76 (0.95%) JSON
14 73 (0.91%) OAuth
15 70 (0.87%) XML
16 62 (0.77%) CSS
17 60 (0.75%) Pandas
18 57 (0.71%) HTML
19 56 (0.70%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 369 (4.60%) Onboarding
2 343 (4.28%) Product Ownership
3 324 (4.04%) Cloud Native
4 226 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 193 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 174 (2.17%) Data Structures
7 157 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 156 (1.94%) Fixed Income
9 152 (1.90%) Derivative
10 142 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
11 135 (1.68%) Data Centre
12 134 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
13 118 (1.47%) Equities
14 108 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 102 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
16 96 (1.20%) Public Cloud
17 91 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
18 89 (1.11%) AI Agents
19 86 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
20 74 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 281 (3.50%) Windows
2 253 (3.15%) Linux
3 134 (1.67%) Unix
4 62 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 39 (0.49%) Windows 10
6 37 (0.46%) Solaris
7 30 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 26 (0.32%) Android
10 25 (0.31%) zOS
11 19 (0.24%) Mac OS
12 17 (0.21%) AIX
13 7 (0.087%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.075%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.075%) VMS
14 6 (0.075%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.062%) HPUX
15 5 (0.062%) SUSE
15 5 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
16 4 (0.050%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,686 (21.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,664 (20.75%) Agile
3 1,130 (14.09%) Migration
4 1,035 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 912 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 865 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 860 (10.72%) DevOps
8 826 (10.30%) AI
9 823 (10.26%) CI/CD
10 807 (10.06%) ERP
11 793 (9.89%) Analytics
12 720 (8.98%) Project Management
13 699 (8.71%) Decision-Making
14 672 (8.38%) Data Modelling
15 666 (8.30%) Roadmaps
16 659 (8.22%) Validation
17 614 (7.65%) User Acceptance Testing
18 612 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
19 585 (7.29%) Change Management
20 525 (6.55%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,117 (13.93%) SQL
2 979 (12.21%) Python
3 554 (6.91%) Java
4 362 (4.51%) C#
5 237 (2.95%) JavaScript
6 226 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 181 (2.26%) PowerShell
8 87 (1.08%) C++
9 73 (0.91%) Bash
10 72 (0.90%) PL/SQL
11 66 (0.82%) Go
12 65 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 55 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 55 (0.69%) Shell Script
14 42 (0.52%) Scala
15 38 (0.47%) VBA
16 28 (0.35%) Apex Code
16 28 (0.35%) Bicep
17 27 (0.34%) Kotlin
17 27 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 666 (8.30%) Degree
2 624 (7.78%) Security Cleared
3 444 (5.54%) SC Cleared
4 209 (2.61%) ACCA
5 205 (2.56%) PMP
6 186 (2.32%) CIMA
7 174 (2.17%) PMI Certification
8 144 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 132 (1.65%) CISSP
10 125 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 79 (0.98%) CISM
12 78 (0.97%) Master's Degree
13 77 (0.96%) DV Cleared
14 73 (0.91%) Azure Certification
15 58 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
16 46 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
17 41 (0.51%) AWS Certification
18 36 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 30 (0.37%) ISTQB
20 29 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 490 (6.11%) Data Quality
2 360 (4.49%) QA
3 303 (3.78%) PMO
4 279 (3.48%) GDPR
5 157 (1.96%) NIST
6 132 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 111 (1.38%) IFRS
8 94 (1.17%) SLA
9 90 (1.12%) GRC
10 89 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 72 (0.90%) Accessibility
12 63 (0.79%) PCI DSS
13 58 (0.72%) GAAP
14 56 (0.70%) ISO 20022
15 34 (0.42%) NCSC
15 34 (0.42%) PSD2
15 34 (0.42%) SEPA
16 30 (0.37%) IFRS 17
16 30 (0.37%) Solvency II
17 27 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 259 (3.23%) Docker
2 160 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 52 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.35%) vSphere
5 26 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.14%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.12%) NFS
11 9 (0.11%) RACF
12 6 (0.075%) GPFS
12 6 (0.075%) KVM
13 5 (0.062%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.037%) GridGain
14 3 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.037%) SRDF
15 2 (0.025%) ACF2
15 2 (0.025%) HDFS
15 2 (0.025%) IAG
Systems Management
1 360 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 232 (2.89%) Terraform
3 126 (1.57%) Ansible
4 79 (0.98%) Grafana
5 66 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 64 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 48 (0.60%) SCCM
8 36 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (0.27%) Control-M
10 18 (0.22%) FortiGate
10 18 (0.22%) vRealize
11 15 (0.19%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (0.17%) Argo
12 14 (0.17%) Nessus
13 13 (0.16%) AirWatch
14 11 (0.14%) CASB
14 11 (0.14%) Puppet
15 9 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
15 9 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,031 (12.85%) Microsoft
2 662 (8.25%) Oracle
3 635 (7.92%) SAP
4 279 (3.48%) ServiceNow
5 240 (2.99%) Databricks
6 200 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 179 (2.23%) Google
8 116 (1.45%) Workday
9 108 (1.35%) Splunk
10 107 (1.33%) VMware
11 94 (1.17%) Cisco
12 89 (1.11%) CyberArk
13 82 (1.02%) IBM
14 63 (0.79%) Citrix
15 58 (0.72%) OpenAI
16 54 (0.67%) Sage
17 53 (0.66%) Ariba
18 51 (0.64%) Bloomberg
19 45 (0.56%) IFS
20 43 (0.54%) Informatica